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O's fans: Don't boo opposing team's intros, do boo Kevin Gregg's intro. - the wrong element, bad guy Apr 6, 11:52
My boss sent an e-mail to the department at 1:15 letting people know they could leave at 3:00. - TFox Apr 6, 11:50 15
- Ouch. - spamlet Apr 6, 11:54 1
  - My bosses are dumb like that though. - TFox Apr 6, 11:55
- Did he give a reason? Unless there is an emergency - amoxy Apr 6, 11:53
- maybe his Boss got mad cause he didn't get approval? - Epiphany Apr 6, 11:51 6
  - That's when TFox's boss replies "but I already sent the email. I'll be careful next time." -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 11:54
  - Shut up. - Iron Spawn Apr 6, 11:53 1
    - heh - I suspect someone did do that - we got relatives and spouses that work in different locations -someone ruined it for all of us - Epiphany Apr 6, 11:55
  - i suspect that this is exactly what happened, but still. That ship has sort of sailed at that point. - TFox Apr 6, 11:53 2
    - agreed -- nm - Epiphany Apr 6, 11:56
    - In fact, my manager was (playfully) talking smack to other nearby employees. - TFox Apr 6, 11:55
- Tell him you were too busy standing by the doors to read the second one. -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 6, 11:51
- unless there's something on work fire that's a stunningly bad move. - Mel Profit Apr 6, 11:51 2
  - SheFox didn't see my text until she had already gotten the kids in the car to come pick me up. - TFox Apr 6, 11:52 1
    - More than a little. -- nm - ty97 Apr 6, 11:54
- Wow -- nm - ty97 Apr 6, 11:50
who said it: Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns? -- (link) - pixitude Apr 6, 11:47
Mapping the Laggards in the Recovery -- (link) - ty97 Apr 6, 11:40 2
- I was listening to the WBBM780 noon business report and they were saying that whatever that 5000 stock index is is back to the same level it was - oblique Apr 6, 11:43 1
  - Yep, the stock markets have recovered. - ty97 Apr 6, 11:46
Pinterest is the number 3 social network in the US (sorry Google+) -- (link) - ty97 Apr 6, 11:37 4
- Did I hear correctly, did President Obama really sign up for Pinterest? - Stephen Apr 6, 11:38 3
  - I'm sure his office did, just like I'm sure they are on Twitter and Facebook. - ty97 Apr 6, 11:41
  - yes, I am sure he is personally repinning cupcake recipes. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 11:40
  - His campaign is on there. And so is Mitt's wife - con_carne Apr 6, 11:39
president of Malawi soured of a heart attack -- (link) - zork Apr 6, 11:33 3
- Bingu is dead? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 6, 11:36 1
  - (yes.) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 6, 11:37
- and also, dead. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 11:35
Anyone know who the female voice on the Camry radio commercials is? - spamlet Apr 6, 11:33 10
- Dunno. But here is where I always go with questions like this. -- (link) - Science Vermin Apr 6, 11:34 8
  - The chicken sandwich has natural Guacamole - amoxy Apr 6, 11:39
  - 1. It's radio. 2. She's famous - spamlet Apr 6, 11:36 6
    - If you link the YouTube commercial, I'll help you guess! -- nm - Science Vermin Apr 6, 11:39 5
      - I can't find it :( -- nm - spamlet Apr 6, 11:46 3
        
        I was just hoping someone else had heard it and knew. -- nm - spamlet Apr 6, 11:49 2
        
        Kelly Clarkson? -- (link) - marcel Apr 6, 11:50 [youtube] 1
        
        No, she's a tv actress. - spamlet Apr 6, 12:03
      - Step One: Turn of your monitor. There it is! -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 6, 11:43
- Yo mama. -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 6, 11:33
sitwap: Amanda Bynes' mugshot. -- (link) - loosilu Apr 6, 11:30 1
- She's starting to look a little like Alanis. -- nm - Science Vermin Apr 6, 11:33
Google Telepathic Satellite Recording perfected. Feed from Znufrii's brain captured. -- (link) - Science Vermin Apr 6, 11:28 [Image] 1
- ACK! - Iron Spawn Apr 6, 11:33
nmb amoxy - con_carne Apr 6, 11:26 3
- didn't see that thanks -- nm - amoxy Apr 6, 11:27 2
  - Oh, looks like they just tell that to everybody - con_carne Apr 6, 11:31
  - You were too busy rocking out to my awesome selection. It happens. -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 11:28
We're the kids in America! -- nm - amoxy Apr 6, 11:25
Woo, I'm going to a baseball game Tuesday! - ty97 Apr 6, 11:19
ok, these are really hilarious -- (link) - marcel Apr 6, 11:18 2
- "Microwave Recipes For One" I don't see what's so hilarious about that! *cries* -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 11:23 1
  - *points and laughs* -- nm - ty97 Apr 6, 11:26
looks like someone asked Jeremy Renner if he was gay and he got PISSED... - Diva Apr 6, 11:15 4
- good lord - the closet is making him CRANKY - Epiphany Apr 6, 11:48
- Geez, sorry I asked. Settle down, Jer-bear. -- nm - Mama Renner Apr 6, 11:26 1
  - this made me laugh and laugh - cause you know she keeps wondering why the " business" partner is at every family function -- nm - Epiphany Apr 6, 11:49
- sitmop -- nm - Diva Apr 6, 11:15
Transportation and the New Generation: Why Young People Are Driving Less and What It Means for Transportation Policy - ty97 Apr 6, 11:11 2
- +20 SB Points -- nm - Strongbad Apr 6, 11:49
- Good for them. Those are heartening numbers. -- nm - GregW Apr 6, 11:33
And finally, I get Opening Day too! - spamlet Apr 6, 11:02 5
- This year in particular - this Soft Open Rollout of Opening Day was sincerely Bad Idea Jeans. Just hideous. -- nm - Diva Apr 6, 11:06 4
  - hasbaseballstartedyet.com - TFox Apr 6, 11:11 1
    - "Please enter your location to see exciting product offers from the MLB!" -- nm - ty97 Apr 6, 11:18
  - But I love, love, love my MLB At Bat. Get to listen to the game even though I'm 300 miles away. - spamlet Apr 6, 11:11 1
    - best $15 one could spend. -- nm - TFox Apr 6, 11:11
I swear to you guys - MD lady sold that ticket someone who is going to cash it and give her half - Epiphany Apr 6, 10:41 5
- i think she's just a crazy lady -- nm - pixitude Apr 6, 10:44 1
  - clearly. and I am sure the idea Pip and I are positing, was not her own. -- nm - Jovian Apr 6, 10:47
- I was just saying something along these lines to people at work. - Jovian Apr 6, 10:43 2
  - 5) especially if video ain't going to be able to prove who bought it - right? right. -- nm - Epiphany Apr 6, 10:44 1
    - she secretly goes back to Haiti and no one is the wiser - Epiphany Apr 6, 10:45
pains me to say this but I found out that a family member has sent some money to Nigeria - zork Apr 6, 10:41
I don't know that i've ever read an article that has made me this sick to my stomach, and speechless with disbelief... - Stephen Apr 6, 10:40 12
- WTF is wrong with people? -- nm - znufrii Apr 6, 10:54
- wouldn't be better to find some way to put these infants to work somehow? -- nm - Newt Apr 6, 10:50
- it offends me to my core. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 6, 10:49
- I don't think it has much to do with being an advanced society. Infanticide has been around for ages; the rights of children are actually a pretty - mara Apr 6, 10:49
- I'm the " Poster Woman" for Pro Choice and that is the most ridicilous thing ever. No one is going to get behind that. ever. nor should they -- nm - Epiphany Apr 6, 10:49
- I doubt you'll find any pro-choice people supporting this. It reads like a thought experiment - TWuG Apr 6, 10:44 6
  - Yeah, I think there's a danger when normal people try to read academic papers. The authors' explanation here -- (link) - mara Apr 6, 10:51 5
    - Yeah, I'm not upset at all by this. Academic papers don't always mean "we should do this". Often they mean "Here's an extension of the thought process - Reagen Apr 6, 11:13 4
      - I find the distinction between "should we do it (legally)" and " could we do it ( ethically)" no less disturbing. -- nm - Stephen, (still) loving the Lady Irish! Apr 6, 11:32 2
        
        It's just an argument. If you want to say the conclusion is stupid, that's totally your prerogative. -- nm - Reagen Apr 6, 11:41 1
        
        You say potato, I say kill all the jews. -- nm - Iron Spawn Apr 6, 11:50
      - Exactly. -- nm - mara Apr 6, 11:16
LOL, if this person is 43, then Im 19. (link) - Jovian Apr 6, 10:35 16
- wow, I hadn't seen Kelly LeBrock in a while. She looks like Stifler's mom's older sister. -- nm - Max Apr 6, 11:03
- Bangs need to go away. Only Zooey Deschanel should be allowed to wear them. -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 10:52
- her skin is pulled so tight, I'm surprised she can blink. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 10:37
- Given that we've watched her grow up onscreen... -- nm - David Apr 6, 10:36 12
  - We have? - Stephen Apr 6, 10:42 11
    - IMDB says we have -- (link) - marcel Apr 6, 10:46 2
      - Oh, right. She also married Sipowicz on NYPD Blue. -- nm - David Apr 6, 10:50 1
        
        That would definitely age a person. -- nm - Reagen Apr 6, 10:51
    - Do you remember the song How Do You Talk to an Angel? - David Apr 6, 10:46 7
      - (@chattyangel) nm - Dignan Apr 6, 11:33
      - I remember the song, but not the show. -- nm - Stephen Apr 6, 11:05 5
        
        The first iteration of Glee, it was already canceled before the song hit #1. -- nm - David Apr 6, 11:09 4
        
        I searched for the song on YouTube, just to make sure it was the one I was thinking of, and came up with this clip... -- (link) - Stephen Apr 6, 11:13 [youtube] 3
        
        It's the 90s-est thing ever. -- nm - Reagen Apr 6, 11:18
        
        That first minute is spectacularly awful. - David Apr 6, 11:17 1
        
        Is that what foisted Jamie Walters upon us? -- nm - spamlet Apr 6, 12:04
tons of smoke around those apartments that the F-18 crashed into -- nm - zork Apr 6, 10:27 6
- The Navy says the pilots are being treated for injuries that are non-life threatening. -- (link) - loosilu Apr 6, 10:31 1
  - at least one person on the ground was hurt. hope that's all -- nm - zork Apr 6, 10:33
- pictures. -- (link) - loosilu Apr 6, 10:29 1
  - you can see the back of the plane here -- (link) - zork Apr 6, 10:35
- you don't usually get that with a jet fighter crash -- nm - pixitude Apr 6, 10:28 1
  - it hit a row of low-rise apartments which have been burning out -- nm - zork Apr 6, 10:29
friday hax chat q: he is itching to quit his desk job for the wonderful world of law school. but wife is pregnant - pixitude Apr 6, 10:23 27
- Let me second Loosi's sentiment... - Stephen Apr 6, 11:38
- and it doesn't have to be one or the other. It can be done. [nm] - Mel Profit Apr 6, 10:54
- I'm picturing him watching Blue's Clues in two years, Steve singing ~ you can do anything that you wanna do ~... - TFox Apr 6, 10:49 1
  - When I'm feeling up to it I'm going to write what happens to... - Mel Profit Apr 6, 11:03
- husband = father = provider - what part of that is unclear? -- nm - Epiphany Apr 6, 10:42
- dumbass. -- nm - TFox Apr 6, 10:38 15
  - (I mean, if anything summed up the millenials in the work force, there it is right there.) - TFox Apr 6, 10:39 14
    - doesn't matter. he's got to be 'happy'. - Diva Apr 6, 10:40 13
      - how does anyone commit that last sentence to paper without then instantly deleting the whole e-mail and saying, "you know what? i'm a moron." -- nm - TFox Apr 6, 10:45 5
        
        it is an amusing insight into his personality. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 6, 10:53 4
        
        i mean... he put ME in all caps. - TFox Apr 6, 10:57 3
        
        you can smell the "Oh shit...this isn't like being a firefighter exciting!" desperation. - Mel Profit Apr 6, 11:02 2
        
        "You know what would be better than being an accountant? Being an accountant in space!" -- nm - TFox Apr 6, 11:06 1
        
        No it wouldn't -- nm - amoxy Apr 6, 11:39
      - i don't begrudge anyone that wish, although fatherhood does come first now. but the idea that law school is the itch he gotta scratch - pixitude Apr 6, 10:41 6
        
        none of his job changing in the past made him 'happy' or else he would have kept one of those jobs. - Diva Apr 6, 10:46 1
        
        What are the chances that he's never cheated on her? -- nm - Max Apr 6, 11:06
        
        yeah, that made me laugh. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 10:46
        
        I'm with ya - he thinks having a kid is bad? he ain't seen nothing yet -- nm - Epiphany Apr 6, 10:43 2
        
        plus six figures of debt! -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 10:47 1
        
        HIS needs! -- nm - Diva Apr 6, 10:47
- "I'm not ready to be a father yet. The unborn child is already suffocating me." -- nm - David Apr 6, 10:35
- This guy is never going to be happy in whatever job he gets -- nm - amoxy Apr 6, 10:33 1
  - this -- nm - Diva Apr 6, 10:35
- Oh that poor woman -- nm - JenBro Apr 6, 10:31
- yes. yes it does. -- nm - mafic Apr 6, 10:25
- suck it up, princess. Bad time for school. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 10:24
Help please. Friend got a random email. What sort of company/position do you think this is (legitimacy seems questionable to me)? - con_carne Apr 6, 10:22 13
- He'll be fencing stolen goods. It's a pretty common scam these days. -- nm - spamlet Apr 6, 11:08
- scam. scamaram. scamarama. scamaramadingdong. - Diva Apr 6, 10:41 1
  - it could be legit! -- nm - pixitude Apr 6, 10:42
- They ask you to receive payments from potential customers, withhold your payment, and Western Union the balance to them.... - MojaveMeg Apr 6, 10:29 1
  - exactly -- nm - zork Apr 6, 10:43
- Thanks all. Googling is key. :) Looks like it's MLM. -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 10:29 1
  - All I had to read was "Friend got a random email". -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 10:45
- scam -- nm - JaxSean Apr 6, 10:25
- If there's nothing when you Google the company name, it's a scam. If there's something when you Google it, knowing what it is would help us answer. -- nm - mara Apr 6, 10:25
- Total scam. -- nm - Kim Pine Apr 6, 10:24
- giant scam. if it sounds too good to be true, it is. -- nm - mafic Apr 6, 10:23
- Have you heard of this company before? Is there a website? -- nm - amoxy Apr 6, 10:23
- scam. -- nm - loosilu Apr 6, 10:23
Regarding the F-35 article the other day... - Mel Profit Apr 6, 10:21
I suppose asimov isn't exactly utopian, but they generally have it better. -- nm - mafic Apr 6, 10:20 1
- oh, sure -- nm - hari seldon Apr 6, 10:24
Crowdsourcing help needed. Let's roll this. -- nm - con_carne Apr 6, 10:15 3
- glad we could help. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 6, 10:19 1
  - that was easy! -- nm - Remlik Apr 6, 10:19
- K what up -- nm - amoxy Apr 6, 10:18

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